Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Conventions

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Themes

pp 13-14

1 - Exhortations and Expectations: Preaching about the Ideal Minister in Post-Reformation Scotland

pp 15-31

2 - Ministers and the Bible in Early Modern Scotland

pp 32-51

3 - The Protestant Clergy and Poor Relief, 1560–1660

pp 52-69

4 - Scotland’s ‘Holy Households’: Wives and Children of Reformed Ministers

pp 70-88

5 - Anticlericalism in Early Modern Scotland?

pp 89-108

Part II - Case Studies

pp 109-110

6 - Pastors in Search of a Congregation: Clerical Calls for Reform before 1546

pp 111-129

7 - ‘Doctrein’ or ‘Filthie Speachis’? The St Andrews Ministers and the Politics of the 1590s

pp 130-150

8 - Clerical Culture and Island Logic in Early Modern Orkney

pp 151-170

9 - ‘Gryt Abuse is Found in this Toune’: James Sharpe and Moral Reformation in South Leith, 1639–45

pp 171-185

10 - Pastoral Cares, Covenant, and Courtship in John Dury’s Personal Correspondence, 1641–5

pp 186-206

11 - ‘Wings of the Soul’: Moderating Emotion in the Preaching of Hugh Binning (1627–53)

pp 207-224

Afterword

pp 225-236

Bibliography

pp 237-256

Index

pp 257-270

St Andrew Studies in Scottish History

pp 271-271